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title: saw a car drive off after hitting a dog, what should i remember — Remembering details · tree and pragmatics
description: saw a car drive off after hitting a dog, what should i remember Test 15 of lesson 18 «Remembering details» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 15 · Remembering details

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saw a car drive off after hitting a dog, what should i remember

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** saw car, i · **What happens:** see, drive off, hit, remember · **To what, where:** dog

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This is test 15 of lesson 18 «Remembering details» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/18-remembering-details/#t15).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:18-remembering-details:t15:1
# text = saw a car drive off after hitting a dog, what should i remember
1	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	amod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	hitting	hit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	14	obj	_	_
12	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	i	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **drive off** | infinitive | a saw car |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hit** | gerund | a saw car *not said here* | a dog |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme dog=Co-Theme |
| 4 | **remember** | should | i |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent what=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The colour, the type and the plate if you can

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:18-remembering-details:t15:o1:1
# text = The colour, the type and the plate if you can
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	type	type	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	plate	plate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Just which way the dog ran

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:18-remembering-details:t15:o2:1
# text = Just which way the dog ran
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
3	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | the dog | which way |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nothing, it is not your job

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:18-remembering-details:t15:o3:1
# text = Nothing, it is not your job
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | present | Nothing | your job |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Only how loud it was

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:18-remembering-details:t15:o4:1
# text = Only how loud it was
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
3	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | loud *property* | tree rules |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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